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INDIAN GUIDES!
AHA! A possible explanation for my recent Indian chief dream (see my mom’s comment at the bottom). I completely forgot about that! Actually, catching that sheepshead won us the “fishing…
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This Just In
Attention all Americans in Japan, whipped cream in cans is NOW AVAILABLE AT A JUSCO SHOPPING CENTER NEAR YOU!!! Fear not the Euro-sounding Chantibic brand name, this stuff looks, smells,…
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Speech-to-text it is not
Speaking of cars, the new voice-controlled car navigation systems are a total fucking trip. A couple weeks ago, I caught a ride with a guy from work to an after-work…
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Jesus Christ
Is this shit really happening?
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New Orleans
HOLY SHIT. My prayers go out to all.
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Conversational Patterns
There’s an old lady who lives a few houses down from us. I usually see her when I return home from work or go out for a walk. In the…
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Target: Sumoto
A colleague just related something that he saw on a documentary last night: During WWII, Sumoto was number 173 on a list of 180 Japanese targets to be carpet bombed…
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Sambo Revisited
A few months ago, I wrote a post about the republishing of Little Black Sambo by a Japanese publisher, and my mom left this in the comments: You used to…
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All your base is belong to… Gaijin?
Whoa. Check out the latest comment on my Black Bus post from last year: You are not understand nothing yet… gaijin The commenter, Ryoma, is either a big fan or…
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NHK Fee Collectors
NHK is the national public broadcasting station in Japan. They send subscription fee collectors to seemingly every front door in the nation on a semi-regular basis, and in my experience,…
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There is no love in your violence…
This sounds like a scene straight from Ishi the Killer: …Nagasawa then punched the victim in the face, saying he did not answer politely enough… …Nagasawa then allegedly followed the…
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On Inspiration and Foreign Language Study
Uninspiring story #1: The Japanese girl who really went to Los Angeles in pursuit of life ala Beverly Hills 90210. (seriously.) Uninspiring story #2: Her best friend, who followed two…
